Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona.
Made from orange-tinted exposed concrete, Siza designed each floor in the house with an outdoor terrace to extend the internal spaces and provide a connection with the surrounding sloped terrain and nearby sea.
Colien House steps down a sloped site in Barcelona
"The central purpose was to answer the programme proposal made by the client by including a careful embodiment of the landscape, complying with the specific local rules and the relation of each of the four floors' elevation with the natural topography," Siza told Dezeen.
"Each house level offers a terrace that amplifies the interior space, while relishing the landscape's natural beauty and the 180-degree view from east to west." The home was made from orange-tinted concrete
Siza designed Colien House to have a compact layout that steps into the landscape, intending to minimise the built impact on the site.
The street entrance is located on the top floor, where there is also a garage and a planted outdoor terrace overlooking the surroundings.

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"The terrace on the entrance floor has a particular nature ? it is the first and last impression to those who live and visit the house," said Siza.
"It seemed fitting...